Secondary benefits

● Increase in the impact of assurance (time, cost and quality)

● Increase in project action following assurance

● Increase in the perception of reviewer quality

● Evidence that project staff are using and learning from the lessons of past projects; i.e. a reduction in the number of repeated lessons learned

● Improvement in stakeholder perception of the value of assurance

● Improvement in stakeholder perception on the degree of system integration

Appendix One, Figures 3 to 6, provides more detail on each of the core elements of the assurance system including:

● The objective for each element

● The guiding principles that should be adhered to

● A description of the ideal state, the current position and a gap analysis

● A set of suggested priority actions to close the gap

● A list of measures to check whether the gaps are being closed